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a fine day for Easter Sunday
[Sketch of ruins of a farm house, captioned : Portion of the Ruins of Cellar Farm]
April 23rd In consequence considerable activity was exhibited in the aerial sphere one or two rather exciting duels taking place & numerous shells being uselessly expended as usual by both sides. Our airmen however show a considerable amount of daring more than the Germans who with their fast machines fly at a very great height. One of ours in particular flies at rather low altitude backward's & forwards with rather monotonous regularity over the enemy lines. Whether he finds it monotonous is rather doubtful for he is constantly under both shell & machine gun fire. Early in the morning, the Germans who we are told are usually most busy on Sunday began to drop shells behind our lines.
"Whiz-bangs" ( the popular name for the German 77m) had fallen at the head of our communication trench.
Anzac Day – Tuesday 25th April was kept up in the trenches by the Germans who gave our lines a little 'strafing' accounting for several casualties and working parties. On Wednesday the bombardment was continued our guns however taking the chief part in the action.
The beautiful weather following on Easter Sunday saw considerable activity in construction work. In the second line we constructed two battle implacements